VMworld 2014 (US) – Ask the Experts

The Ask the Experts lunch invites you to participate in discussions with your peers on topics and issues that matter to you most, guided by VMware experts and leaders.

Select the category and topic area of specialty from the experts provided below:

Applications

TABLE EXPERT TITLE SPECIALITY
1 Aaron Sweemer Principal Systems Engineer Docker Application Containers on vSphere, DevOps, PaaS
2 David Gallant Practice Solutions Architect SAP and Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere
3 Deji Akomolafe Consulting Architect Microsoft Applications on VMware vSphere
4 Justin Murray Senior Technical Marketing Manager Big Data
5 Kannan Mani Staff Solutions Architect Oracle on VMware vSphere
6 Scott Salyer Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering Microsoft Applications
7 Vas Mitra Staff Solutions Architect SAP on VMware vSphere

End User Computing

TABLE EXPERT TITLE SPECIALITY
10 Basil Hashem Senior Director, Mobile Application Development & Management Airwatch
11 David Stafford Director, Product Management Horizon Desktop-as-a-Services (DaaS)
12 Dean Flaming Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Destkop ThinApp
13 David Gilon Senior Product Manager Horizon Desktop-as-a-Services (DaaS)
14 Jim Yanik End User Computing Architect Horizon View
15 Justin Venezia Consulting Architect, Solutions & Service Engineering Horizon View, Mirage
16 Kit Colbert Chief Technology Officer, End User Computing End User Computing
17 Mark Ewert Product Line Marketing Manager, Destkop Transition from Citrix to Vmware Horizon and DaaS
18 Shankar Iyer Vice President, Product Management Desktop Solutions Horizon View
19 Stephane Asselin End User Computing Architect Horizon Mirage, vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon
20 Tommy Walker Principal Engineer Horizon View
21 Tony Huynh Product Line Manager, Desktop Product Management vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon
22 Jens Koerner Director, Mobile Strategy for AirWatch Airwatch

General

TABLE EXPERT TITLE SPECIALITY
25 Brandi Collins VMUG Communities and Leader Development Coordinator VMware Users Group
26 Pablo Roesch Group Manager, Technical Marketing, Hands-On Labs
27 Matt Herreras Manager, System Engineering Government/Local/Education

Global Support Services

TABLE EXPERT TITLE SPECIALITY
30 David Hulbert Director, GSS Americas Global Support Services
31 Mike Bates Director, Service Delivery Global Support Services

Hybrid Cloud

TABLE EXPERT TITLE SPECIALITY
35 Amit Gupta Director, Product Management vCloud Hybrid Service
36 Jenny Fong Group Manager, Product Marketing vCloud Hybrid Services
37 Marc Umeno Product Line Manager vCloud Hybrid Service – Management
38 Massimo Re Ferre Staff Solutions Architect vCloud Hybrid Service
39 Rachna Thusoo Senior Product Manager vCloud Hybrid Service – Storage & Availability
40 Russell Cozart Senior Product Manager vCloud Hybrid Service – Compute
41 Saikat Maiti Product Line Manager vCloud Hybrid Service – Security, Compliance and Data Privacy
42 Sujatha David Senior Product Manager vCloud Hybrid Service – User Experience
43 David Hill Product Marketing Manager vCloud Hybrid Service – Platform
44 Michael Roy Technical Marketing Manager, Cloud Services vCloud Hybrid Service

Professional Services

TABLE EXPERT TITLE SPECIALITY
50 David Crane Operations Architect, Global Operations Transformation Practice Cloud Services
51 David Katt Senior Manager, Operation Excellence Cloud Services
52 Sudhir Balasubramanian Senior Solution Architect, Global Center Of Excellence Cloud Services & Business Critical Applications
53 Kevin Lees Principal Architect, Global Operations Transformation Practice Cloud Services
54 Khalid Hakim Operations Architect, Global Operations Transformation Practice Cloud Services
55 Rich Benoit Operations Architect, Global Operations Transformation Practice Cloud Services
56 Rohan Kalra Operations Architect, Global Operations Transformation Practice Cloud Services
57 John Yani Arrasjid Principal Architect, VCDX-001, Global Services/Certification Infrastructure Design Methodology, Cloud and Certification

Software Defined Data Center

TABLE EXPERT TITLE SPECIALITY
64 Gregory Murray Product Line Manager Virtual Appliances
65 Alan Renouf Senior Product Manager CLIs and Configuration Management
66 Ameet Jani Group Product Line Manager Web Client UI
67 Banjot Chanana Director, Product Management Cloud Managerment Platform, vCloud Automation Center, vCenter Orchestrator
68 Becky Smith + Pradnesh Patil Product Line Manager vCloud Automation Center & NSX Integration
69 Bhavesh Davda Senior Staff Engineer, Performance High Performance Computing (HPC), Latency Sensitive Applications, vRDMA
70 Bob Perugini Senior Product Manager VUM/VISL
71 Brian Graf Technical Marketing Engineer vCloud Suite
72 Brian Menezes
Evelina Krumova		 Director, Product Management
Product Manager		 Product Analytics, vCenter Support Assistant, Virtual Infrastructure Planner
73 Cameron Sturdevant Senior Product Marketing Manager OpenStack
74 Chandra Prathuri Senior Product Manager IT Business Management
75 Donna Reineck Product Line Manager Performance, Latency Sensitive Applications
76 Eddie Dinel Director, Product Management vCloud Suite, Common Services
77 Eran Carmel Product Line Manager vCenter Hyperic, vCenter Operations Manager
78 George Gerchow Cloud Management Solution Evangelist vCloud Suite
79 Harry Smith Senior Technical Marketing Manager vCloud Suite
80 Jason Holmberg Senior Product Manager vCloud Automation Center
81 Jeff Margolese Senior Director, Competitvie Marketing OpenStack & Competition
82 Josh Simons Senior Staff Engineer, Performance High Performance Computing (HPC), Latency Sensitive Applications, vRDMA
83 Josh Townsend Senior Technical Marketing Manager vCloud Suite
84 Justin Griffin Senior Product Manager vCenter Operations Manager
85 Justin King Senior Technical Marketing Architect vCenter Server
86 Kiran Madnani Product Line Manager Storage (vSAN, vVols and vFlash)
87 Kyle Gleed Senior Technical Marketing Architect ESXi, Host Profiles, Auto Deploy, vSOM
88 Martin Yip Senior Product Marketing Manager vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management
89 Mike Brown Senior Technical Marketing Manager vCloud Suite
90 Mike Foley Senior Technical Marketing Manager vSphere Platform Security
91 Mohan Potheri Senior Solutions Architect Performance
92 Monica Sharma Group Product Line Manage vCenter Operations Manager
93 Nick Marshall Senior Product Manager vCloud Suite
94 Paul Strong Chief Technology Officer, Global Field Cloud Management
95 Rajesh Khazanchi Group Product Line Manager DevOps
96 Salil Suri
Will Pien		 Senior Product Manager
enior Product Manager		 Host Profiles, Auto Deploy
97 Kenny Jiang
Abha Jani		 Product Line Manager
Senior Product Manager		 Product Analytics
98 Steve Flanders Staff Consulting Architect vCenter Log Insight
99 Thomas Corfmat Product Line Manager vCenter Orchestrator, vCloud Automation Center
100 Tom Stephens Senior Technical Marketing Architect vCloud Suite
101 Vipul Shah Director, Product Management Cloud Management Platform
102 Wayne Greene Senior Director, Product Management vCenter Operations Manager
103 Zubair Ansari Product Line Manager vCenter Operations Manager
104 Kobi Katzir Senior Product Line Manager IT Business and Cloud Management
105 Matthew Dreyer Group Product Line Manager vCenter Server
106 Narayan Bharadwaj Director, Product Management vCenter Server
107 Chanda Dani Director, Competitive Marketing Cloud Suite & Competition
109 Ben Meadowcroft Product Line Manager vCenter Site Recovery Manager
109 GS Khalsa Senior Technical Marketing Manager Data Protection & Disaster Recovery
110 Shobhan Lakkapragada Product Line Manager vCenter Site Recovery Manager
111 Ken Werneburg Senior Technical Marketing Architect vSphere Replication, vCenter Site Recovery Manager
112 Jeff Hunter Senior Technical Marketing Architect vSphere Replication, vSphere Data Protection
113 Brad Hedlund Engineering Architect Networking & Security
114 Bruce Davie Principal Engineer Networking & Security
115 Gargi Mitra Keeling Group Manager, Product Management Networking & Security, “Goldilocks Zone”
116 Jim Wiese Director, R&D, vShield Networking & Security, “Goldilocks Zone”
117 Rob Randell Director, Systems Engineering, Networking & Security
118 Scott Lowe Engineering Architect, VCDX Networking & Security, OpenStack
119 Alex Jauch Product Line Manager – Application Storage Storage
120 Joe Cook Senior Technical Marketing Manager Storage Virtualization, Virtual SAN
121 Rawlinson Rivera Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VCDX Virtual SAN
122 Wade Holmes Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VCDX Virtual SAN
123 Patrick Carmichael Senior Solutions Architect Storage
124 Melina McLarty Staff User Experience Designer vSphere Web Client